Table 5
Characteristics of selected high- and low-crime neighbourhoods, City of Saskatoon, 2001

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  Pleasant Hill and Riversdale Adjacent neighbourhoods1 Central business district Residential low-crime2 City of Saskatoon
percentage
Crime rate 283 158 99 19 72
Dwellings built before 1961 51 57 19 0 26
Dwellings built after 1990 3 1 10 66 9
Dwellings needing major repairs 15 11 4 0 6
  dollars
Average value of dwellings 74,636 89,154 145,983 192,476 128,124
  percentage
Renters 71 40 82 2 31
Population aged 15 and under 28 21 1 27 20
Population aged 65 and over 10 12 54 5 12
Population living alone 17 14 57 3 12
Lone-parent families 29 22 3 5 13
Population without a high school diploma 58 45 43 20 31
Population with a university degree 7 8 21 28 20
Unemployment rate 26 12 10 4 7
  dollars
Average employment income 21,507 26,723 37,418 54,156 37,290
  percentage
Government transfers 38 22 28 4 12
Low income 63 33 29 3 20
Aboriginal peoples 47 21 7 3 10
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
1. Caswell Hill, King George, Meadowgreen, Mount Royal, West Industrial and Westmount.
2. Arbor Creek, Briarwood, Lakeridge, Stonebridge, University Heights S.C. and Silverspring.
Note: Confederation Suburban Centre and 'industrial low-crime' neighborhoods do not figure at this table because they have less than 1,000 residents.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, geocoded database 2001, and Census 2001.
Table source: Statistics Canada, 2008, "Neighbourhood characteristics and the distribution of crime in Saskatoon", Crime and Justice Research Paper Series, Catalogue number 85-561-X.